Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...domestic workers will not have the tax deducted, but must settle with the Treasury next year.) It will cast the first income-tax cloud over many a new-rich war worker: an estimated 49,000,000 persons will have to pay it. But for all taxpayers, it has a silver lining of which few are yet aware...
Frank Schiel was poised and confident. He had been decorated (Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross) for more than 200 breathtaking reconnaissance flights over Burma, Siam, Indo-China and Occupied China. He had participated in every major campaign in China, had shot down six Jap planes; he had stayed on to help knowing Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault train the China Air Task Force...
...pilot's wings in 1939. He received the D.F.C. for flying a Fortress with the famed 19th Bombardment Group to the Philippines in September 1941, added an Oak Leaf Cluster for bombing a Jap battleship Jan. 9, 1942. Six weeks later in Java he earned a Silver Star by saving a fellow officer in the face of enemy fire, later got an Oak Leaf Cluster to add to that medal. News of Colonel Reiser's death has probably not reached his wife Margaret, who is still interned in Manila. With the death of Don Keiser, Army men believed...
...Polish magazine commissioned Topolski to draw the ceremonies of King George V's Silver Jubilee. Topolski was so fascinated by such English institutions as pubs, the Derby and the Eton & Harrow cricket match that he stayed on, published a book of satirical drawings appreciatively lampooning Britain's pomps and humors. With the enthusiastic support of famed British Painter Augustus Edwin John, London's ultra-conservative Victoria & Albert Museum purchased three Topolski drawings. Only one member of the Museum's committee objected-on the ground that they were the work of a too young foreigner. The committeeman...
...Chicago's least-known citizens is short, silver-haired Charles Arthur Tilt, 65, who lives in a swanky Gold Coast apartment, is an expert yachtsman, golfer and skeetshooter, is the owner of a cannon-cracker temper. He is also founder, mainspring and president of smart Diamond T Motor Car Co., which last week estimated its 1942 sales 125% over last year to a record $100,000,000. Diamond T had just announced nine months' profits up 45% to $1,063,000-quite a contrast to the 34% drop in the combined profits of competitors, Mack Trucks and Yellow...